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WEEKEND
June 11, 2005
Volume 135, Number 371
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
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Hornets begin
summer weight lifting
With school no longer
in session and summer in
full swing, Westfield head
football coach Ronnie
Jones is already prepar
ing his team for the
upcoming football season.
Sports, page 1B
Happy BIRTHDAY!
June 11
Chantecia Harris
Glenda Johnson
Stan Tydings
June 12
Mildred Wells
June 13
Linda Christie
June Harris
Hugh D. Lord
Greta Loudin
Kim McLendon
Chad Shelton
Christine Walker
Tricia Weeks
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
June 12
Shelby and Thomas
Arnold
June 13
Nancy and Steve Greene
John and Beatrice
Montford (Bill and Bea)
Area DEATH
Macy Michelle Easom
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 6B
CLUB NEWS ... .12A
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
HOMETOWN 5B
LIFESTYLE 9A
OBITUARY 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .8B
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY ,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Perry fipewopks ban delayed
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
The Perry City Council had
planned to hold the second reading
of a proposed ordinance to ban fire
works at a special meeting Monday,
but Perry City Attorney David
Walker has asked for more time to
A life among the aisles
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Thomas Williamson, the newest manager of the Harveys Supermarket in Perry, smiles in front of the store’s produce
section. Williamson has spent most of his life working in and around grocery stores, starting as a bagger at the old
Warner Robins Piggly Wiggly in the 19605.
MGMAC wins humanitarian award
Special to the HHJ
ROBINS AIR FORE
BASE - The Middle Georgia
Military Affairs Committee
has won the Zachary and
Elizabeth Fisher
Distinguished Civilian
Humanitarian Award for Air
Force Materiel Command,
and will now compete at the
Air Force level.
County
talks up
SPLOST
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
“There’s no problem with
SPLOST in Houston County
- hopefully the public sees
that,” said Ned Sanders,
chairman of the Houston
County Board of
Commissioners, during a
recent meeting.
Of the bills the county
paid this month, $318,174
was the county’s payment to
the cities for their portion of
the special purpose local
See SPLOST, page 6A
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research the subject.
Perry is among several communi
ties in the state to respond to the
state’s loosening of restrictions on
the sale of sparklers. The city hand
ed down a 60-day moratorium May
31, and earlier this month drafted
an ordinance to ban their sale and
The MGMAC is a tireless
supporter of Robins Air
Force Base and its military
and civilian personnel as
well as their families. The
committee provided critical
support which directly
improved upon the morale
and welfare of the base as
cited in the award for the
calendar year 2004.
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As of Monday, the intersection of Houston Lake Road and Ga. 127 will be a three-way stop. “As part of the con
struction staging process for the widening of the Houston Lake Road, the intersection will be a three-way stop for
a few months,” said Dorothy Daniel, Georgia Department of Transportation spokeswoman. Portable message
boards will be set up to give motorists advance notification. Daniel urged motorists “to drive with extreme care
until everyone becomes accustomed to the change. They should be particularly careful to observe that oncoming
traffic is stopping before pulling out.”
use.
The city’s quick response came at
the request of Perry Fire Chief
Freddy Howell, who informed the
council late last month that an
Alabama-based company, TNT
Fireworks, planned to sell the newly
legal sparklers in a tent in the park-
The MGMAC is made up
of 230 members from
Macon, Warner Robins,
Perry, Fort Valley,
Hawkinsville, Cochran,
Milledgeville, Dublin and
Eastman/Dodge County.
Each community has a mili
tary affairs chairman and
the overall chairmanship
rotates annually.
Three-way stop starts Monday
“Since 1984, the Middle
Georgia Military Affairs
Committee has been sup
portive of the various mis
sions of the Air Force but
especially those who have
been connected to the
Robins air logistics center,”
said this year’s chairman,
Mayor Jim Worrall of Perry.
“The group seeks no recog-
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ing lot of the Perry Wal-Mart. The
company was working with a youth
group from Faith Assembly of God
in Warner Robins.
Howell has called the proposed
ban a clear-cut safety issue for the
city, and wants to see all fireworks
See FIREWORKS, page 6A
New manager
right at home
in Perry Harveys
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
The newest manager of
the Harveys Supermarket in
Perry grew up in the grocery
business.
Thomas Williamson has
only managed the local gro
cery store on Main Street
since January, but his roots
in the industry reach back
to childhood. Williamson’s
father, Thomas “Ed”
Williamson Sr., was the
manager of a Piggly Wiggly
store in Warner Robins on
North Davis Drive from
1956 until he retired in
1981. Williamson started
working at his father’s store
a month after his gradua
tion from Warner Robins
High School in 1969, bag
ging groceries for $1.70 an
hour.
“I can remember that my
father was always willing to
work long hours to get the
job done,” he said. “He
would even go in on
Sundays, when we were
closed, to catch up on paper
work.”
Williamson, who now lives
in Bonaire, slowly worked
his way up the ladder to
management, moving from
See HARVEYS, page 6A
nition for what it does. We
feel we have an obligation to
support those men and
women who provide us with
the freedoms we enjoy each
and every day.”
On being nominated for
the Air Force level award
Worrall said, “We are
extremely proud that our
See AWARD, page 6A